{"id":489,"date":"2024-01-05T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2025-09-29T01:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T01:27:47","slug":"harvard-ex-prez-claudine-gay-obstinately-absurdly-defends-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Harvard ex-Prez Claudine Gay obstinately (absurdly) defends herself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Claudine<\/a><\/p>\n

In a NY Times op ed. I posted about her resigning yesterday. Harvard President resigns – no regret or remorse – keeps her $800,000 salary. <\/a>   She is ridiculous – a caricature of an intellectual.<\/p>\n

Hit the link for the whole op ed.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, I made the wrenching but necessary decision to resign as Harvard\u2019s president. For weeks, both I and the institution to which I\u2019ve devoted my professional life have been under attack. My character and intelligence have been impugned. My commitment to fighting antisemitism has been questioned.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yup she's right. Correctly impugned and questioned. I spoke to a Jewish liberal business owner two days ago whose daughter went to Harvard. Pretty unhappy with "DEI" and Claudine Gay.<\/p>\n

As I depart, I must offer a few words of warning. The campaign against me was about more than one university and one leader. This was merely a single skirmish in a broader war to unravel public faith in pillars of American society….<\/p>\n

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Yes, I made mistakes. In my initial response to the atrocities of Oct. 7, I should have stated more forcefully what all people of good conscience know: Hamas is a terrorist organization that seeks to eradicate the Jewish state. And at a congressional hearing last month, I fell into a well-laid trap. I neglected to clearly articulate that calls for the genocide of Jewish people are abhorrent and unacceptable and that I would use every tool at my disposal to protect students from that kind of hate.<\/p>\n

The Congresswoman who asked her the very simple yes or no answer on whether Harvard's code of conduct allowed for anti semitic hate speech is a Harvard graduate.<\/p>\n

Most recently, the attacks have focused on my scholarship. My critics found instances in my academic writings where some material duplicated other scholars\u2019 language, without proper attribution. I believe all scholars deserve full and appropriate credit for their work. When I learned of these errors, I promptly requested corrections from the journals in which the flagged articles were published, consistent with how I have seen similar faculty cases handled at Harvard.<\/p>\n

As was pointed out by a Harvard student – which got the ball rolling on her plagiarism – a student with a similar history would be expelled (unless their last name was Kennedy). Hit the link above for the whole sad drivel.<\/p>\n

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